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SUMMER 2014, VOLUME 18

ISABEL BADER CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts onKingston’s waterfront is a stunning, multi-use arts hub forKingston and Southeastern Ontario. Beginning September2014 the Isabel will also serve as shared teaching and performance space for Queen’s University’s music, drama,fine art, and film and media programs.

Upon first sight, the design and architecture of the 566seat performance hall is so outstanding it actually takesyour breath away, and many are awestruck by the scopeand quality of the creation of Norwegian architectural firmSnøhetta and Canadian firm N45 Architecture. Just as stunning is the rehearsal room, which was designed to be an acoustic match with the performance hall. Withfloor to ceiling windows on the south end, students rehearsing this September might find it to be somewhat of a challenge to remain focused on their music and not the exquisite view of the lake.

Not everything in the Isabel is new construction as someoutside walls of the former Stella Buck building and stables were left intact, and now serve as inside walls inthe new facility. The stone is a very attractive architecturalfeature, and an interesting piece of Kingston’s history. Also, some of the quality hard pine, hemlock and sprucefrom the floors of the old brewery were removed and usedagain as a finish in the lobby of the new building.

The School of Music will use the Isabel for ensemble rehearsals/performances, applied teaching for some largeinstruments, as well as for many jury and recital examsand when School of Music students begin to perform on

the stage of the Isabel, they will do so knowing that many veryfamous artists will also be sharing that same stage. In fact whennational and international artists perform at the Isabel, there willbe masterclass opportunities for music students! continued on page 8

HOMECOMING TOURS – The Isabel

Come home to Queen’s for a tour of the Isabel

Interested: Please contact: sr14@queensu.ca

Address: 390 King St. West, Kingston, Ontario K7L 2X4

Date: Saturday, October 18, 2014

Tour Times: 11 am – 12:30 pm

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Performance Hall, Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Congratulations to Andrea Lawn, BMus’83, B.Ed’93for correctly identifying last year’s tune as the‘Going Home’ theme from Dvorak’s New WorldSymphony.

Entries for this year are due September 3, 2014.

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The football game provided a great photo op for the class of ’73 and dinner at Amadeus Restaurant offered alumni anopportunity to recount the weekend’s activities and to catchup. Our sincere thanks to ’73 class organizer David Hunt!

Homecoming and Showcase Concert 2013

The Showcase performance for the first time was an officialQueen’sHomecoming event. The audience was outstanding,and local TV station CKWS interviewed several BMus alumni,who along with portions of the performance were presentedas a news feature, four evenings in a row!

During the Saturday morning coffee meet and greet therewas a special plaque presentation, which commemoratedthe F.R.C. Clarke Choral and Organ Fund. Vice-Dean GordonSmith presented the plaque and gave a special thanks to theclass of ’73 for helping to create this new trust fund.

If you would like to make a donation to the F.R.C. ClarkeChoral and Organ Fund, please go to the School of Musicwebsite at queensu.ca/music and click the Donate Now button.

Homecoming and Showcase Concert 2014

Come home to Queen’s to be a part of the first Showcase performance at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts.

Friday, October 17, 2014

SHOWCASE

7:30 pm Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts Tickets available online at: theisabel.ca or at the door

Saturday, October 18, 2014

9:30 am – 10:45 amCoffee/Tea Meet and GreetFoyer of Harrison-LeCaine Hall

11 am – 12:30 pmTour of the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts390 King Street West, Kingston, Ontario

7:30 pm Alumni Dinner – Amadeus Restaurant 170 Princess Street www.amadeuscafe.ca

For additional information and to confirm attendance at dinner,please contact Shirley Roth: 613.533.2066, email sr14@queensu.ca

(l-r) Dr. Della Stanley, Susan Mumm, Dean, Faculty of Arts &Science, and Gordon Smith, Vice-Dean Faculty of Arts & Science

(l-r) The late Wilbur (Bill) Maust, Martha Clarke (wifeof the late F.R.C. Clarke), and professor David Smith

The Queen’s Alumni Office would be happy to work with you to help organize your class. Please contact: Carrie-Anne Morrisonat carey.morrison@queensu.ca

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PHIL ANTHROPY – ALFRED AND ISABEL BADER

With over 70 years of philanthropic support for Queen’sUniversity,Alfred Bader, Sc’45, Arts’46, MSc’47, LLD’86, and Isabel Bader,LLD’07, helped make a dream of a concert hall come true for the School of Music. Beginning September 2014 students andfaculty will be performing in the Isabel Bader Centre for thePerforming Arts.

The following excerpt from Isabel Bader’s book A Canadian in Love(University of Toronto Press), provides a significant insight intothe life of Alfred Bader.

“Alfred Bader was born in Vienna in 1924, the son of Alfred and Elizabeth Bader. His father died two weeks after his birth and hismother, born a Catholic, allowed his father’s sister, Gisela, a widow, to adopt him and bring him up as a Jew. Alfred always thought of heras his mother. Her fortunes diminished drastically over the years. Frombeing a multi-millionairess, his adopted mother was reduced topoverty. After Kristallnacht, the British government allocated 10,000visas to allow Jewish children between the ages of twelve and sixteen to enter Britain. Alfred was included in the first Kindertransport from Vienna on December 10, 1938. Gisela died in Theresienstadt, a Naziconcentration camp near Prague. His mother, Elizabeth, died after a stroke in 1948.

In England, he was sponsored by an elderly lady, Mrs. Sarah Wolff,and went to school until May 1940, when the police rounded up mostof the German refugees in Britain and took them all to detention centres. Alfred, just 16, was put on the Sobieski and shipped to Canadaas a prisoner of war. He was interned in Fort Lennox on Ile aux Noix,Quebec where he was number 156 and set to work briefly, makingcamouflage nets for twenty cents a day. Soon after, permission wasgiven to start a camp school of internees interested in taking the McGillmatriculation exams which Alfred passed in June and September of1941. Two months later he was released to the care of Sarah Wolff’sson, Martin, who lived in Montreal. Martin, who became like a fatherto Alfred, helped him to enter Queen’sUniversity where he graduatedin Engineering Chemistry. Graduate work at Harvard was followed by an exciting career during which he started a chemical company fromliterally nothing. His astute perception of market needs and his hardwork at meeting these, his ability to find new and inexpensive ways to produce chemicals and to supply chemists around the world, helpedhim build one of the most important chemical companies in NorthAmerica. At the same time, his love of art led him to pursue the raremasterpiece, just as he sought the elusive compound X and the dreamof his love, Isabel, whom he never forgot, re-reading her letters yearafter year until they were engraved on his heart. “

Shaped by the experiences of his youth, and perhaps in spite of them, Alfred Bader became passionate about giving back and helping others.

The love of Alfred’s life, Isabel Overton, was born in Northern Ontario and education was important to the Overton family.Upon graduation from Victoria University in Toronto in 1949, Isabel was determined to travel to England to realize her dream of visiting the home of her father, Herbert Overton. On July 9,1949 she boarded the SS Franconia with her friend Ruth Hunt,departing from Quebec City for Liverpool. During the voyageAlfred and Isabel met and fell in love, but life took them indifferent directions and they did not marry until 30 years later.

Isabel Bader has been a champion of the arts in Canada formany years, and has done much to support the next generationof Canadian artists and musicians. In fact, she has been thedriving force for a number of projects that have opened up theworld of art, theatre, film, music, dance, and costume designto wider audiences in Canada. She has a passion aboutsupporting education in the arts for Canadian young people,and has created a number of scholarships and bursaries atboth her alma mater, Victoria University in Toronto, andAlfred’s alma mater, Queen’s University. As a former teacher,Isabel takes a personal interest in the students whose educationshe supports, and encourages them in their artistic pursuitsand professional development.

Students and faculty members at the School of Music at Queen’sare extremely grateful for Alfred and Isabel Bader’s generoussupport. The Isabel will give music students a unique experienceof performing on a world-class stage, not only sharing this stagewith many national and international artists, but also benefittingfrom master classes with some of these world-class artists.

Our sincere thanks to Alfred and Isabel.

Queen’s University and St. Lawrence College

The new five-year concurrent “Bachelor of Music Degree/Musicand Digital Media Diploma Program” with Queen’s University’sSchool of Music and St. Lawrence College will commence inSeptember, 2014, and upon graduation students will be equippedwith a variety of valuable inter disciplinary skills in music performance, music production and digital media!

School of Music Director, Margaret Walker stated that the advantages of the concurrent program will allow students toearn two qualifications in five years, rather than six (four yearsQueen’s, then two years St. Lawrence). Students in the programwill also have the opportunity to combine the academic andmusical rigour of our BMus degree with the hands-on-trainingand skills development of the diploma program in Music andDigital Media (MDM). Graduating students from this newprogram will be in a position to function effectively in a number ofdifferent worlds, and well equipped for various careers. Not onlywill they be comfortable in the “ivory tower” of western classicalmusic, they will also be skilled in the very latest technology.

Adrienne Shannon, Coordinator of the Music and Digital MediaProgram at St. Lawrence, along with program Co-creator Joy Innismet with Margaret Walker in 2010 to discuss ways to join theuniversity with the college through their music departments, and are now very excited about this new concurrent program!

Queen’s School of MusicSome courses include: Applied Lessons, Ear Training, KeyboardSkills, Theory and Analysis, Music and Society, Music Historyand Culture.

St. Lawrence CollegeSome courses include: Photography, Digital Graphics, VideoProduction, Recording, Digital Motion Graphics, MultimediaAuthoring.

A program brochure along with how students can apply to the Bachelor of Music Degree/Music and Digital Media Diploma Program, can be found on the School of Music’s websitequeensu.ca/music.

History and Culture

The fall began in an exciting way, as we welcomed Inter nationalVisiting Artist-Scholar William Kinderman for a week in October.A Beethoven expert and equally substantial performer andscholar, Dr. Kinderman gave two public lectures, met with students and played a stunning concert, all as part of his shortresidence.

Interesting courses and scholarly activities filled out the year,with seminars in Historical Performance Practice, Musical Lifein 18th-Century London, and special studies of composers andgenres enhancing our regular core course and research seminarofferings. Kip Pegley’s most recent book was launched last May,an intriguing volume co-edited with Susan Fast and entitledMusic, Politics and Violence. In the Colloquium Series, Kip Pegleypresented her recent research on Music, War and Canadian Veterans, Clara Marvin introduced us to musical features of the masque in the works of Handel, and we welcomed backalum Jillian Fulton, BMus’11 to speak about her MA research in Morocco.

School of Music – DSC

Hello Alumni:

In 2013/14, the DSC worked towards creating a highly inclusiveworking environment between all years. After a one-year hiatus,our Welcome Home BBQ/Paint The Crest in September was agreat example of this, as it provided a wonderful opportunityfor Frosh to get involved.

As part of a tradition established by past DSC’s the councilthis year was able to donate $230 to Frontenac County MentalHealth and Addiction Services, and $500 to the School ofMusic. This was made possible through fundraising initiativessuch as bake sales, a textbook fundraiser, the sale of MusicWindbreakers and other various treat-related events.

We would like to thank everyone who worked with us onCouncil this year. Being able to work with all of you was truly a privilege.

Sincerely,

Jessalynn Tsang and Jesse Almeida2013/14 Co-Chairs

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Glenn Vollebregt, CEO and President of St. Lawrence College, and Daniel Woolf,Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s, sign the formal agreement.

Robert Silverman

When Robert Silverman served as Dean of the Faculty of Artsand Science, his wife Elaine was the Auditions Coordinator atThe School of Music. During a dinner with Alfred and IsabelBader, a discussion was initiated about the possibility of a recitalhall for the School of Music; that particular meeting was aspringboard to a now completed 63 million dollar project! In March 2014 Bob and Elaine toured the Isabel, and Bob could not resist the temptation to play his saxophone on the concerthall stage.

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Queen’s Conservatory of Music

The QCM continues to serve thegreater Kingston community withmusic learning opportunities for children and adults, and at the sametime providing teaching and learningopportunities for some Queen’sBMus students. In September, 2014we will welcome Pamela Lo (BMus’15)and Ange Lam (BMus’17) to ourteaching staff and they will be

involved with teaching our youngest students in the YamahaMusic Education System – a fundamentals program that gives children an excellent start in music.

In the planning stage is an intensive after-school programmodeled on the hugely successful Venezuelan El Sistema, whichpromotes social development of children through the powerof music. In collaboration with Kingston area partners, wehope to have a pilot project underway within the upcomingyear, with plans to involve Queen’s students through Internships,Directed Study and Work Study programs. To learn more aboutthis initiative, please contact Karma Tomm, Director Queen’sConservatory of Music, at tommk@queensu.ca or 613-533-2934.

String Area News

In October string students were off to a great start with a violinmaster class with Annalee Patipatanakoon from the JunoAward winning Gryphon Trio. In January there was a chambermusic master class with the Penderecki Quartet, followed by a“Violas for Violinists” class led by Angela Rudden and Queen’sinstructor Eileen Beaudette. Nothing like a roomful of richviola sounds to wipe away the winter blahs! In February therewas a baroque violin master class with Julia Wedman fromTafelmusik, followed in March by a cello master class withMatt Haimovitz.

Our own Rachel Wilson performed the Dávid viola concertowith the Queen’s Symphony Orchestra on February 28th,which was a resounding success. On April 9th in the WilsonRoom there were three guitar recitals. On April 13th at St. Mark’s United Church there were three graduating recitals,followed by a performance of the string quartet.

Just Tweeting Around

Social media including Twitter has become commonplacefor some, and earlier this year when the School of Music

began to tweet away we were surprised to learn just how popularthis form of social media really was. For those who are not in the know, Twitter is a social media platform used for sharinginformation on news and events. Messages sent out on Twittermust only be 140 characters or less. If you would like to receivetweets from the School of Music be sure to follow our Twitterhandle, @Queens.UMusic, on www.twitter.com. To make a new account visit Twitter’s website, follow the steps on theirhomepage.

Composition and Theory

John Burge was presented with one of the university’s prizes forExcellence in Research at the November 20, 2013 Convocationceremony, and this marked the first time that this prize hadbeen awarded for Creative Achievement.

Kristi Allik has retired from Queen’s and is now ProfessorEmeritus. See Faculty Recital Series article (page 7).

The Penderecki Quartet presented a concert in January, andwhile at Queen’s they presented a string master class and aworkshop of string quartets composed by Queen’s students, including one by Bachelor of Music student, Kent Williams,which was then selected as a prize-winning composition by the Edmonton New Music Festival for a performance.

Matt Rogalsky’s MUSC 255 “Introduction to ElectroacousticMusic” class was asked to add music to videos that had beencreated by St. Lawrence College students. This was just a peekinto some of the exciting things that can happen with the newBachelor of Music Degree/Music and Digital Media DiplomaProgram with Queen’s University and St. Lawrence College.(See page 4 for details on this exciting new program).

This year in addition to her theory courses, Stephanie Lind tookon the pivotal role of Chair of Undergraduate Studies. (Also seeTeaching Award, page 7)

Music Education

Rick Birtwhistle (Family Medicine, Community Health and Epidemiology), John Burge(School of Music), Troy Day (Mathematics and Statistics, Biology), Kerry Rowe (CivilEngineering), and George Lovell (Geography)

2013/14 was a year of transition in the Music Education area.While we missed Karen Frederickson’s presence as she enjoyedsabbatical leave before her retirement on June 30th, we also welcomed Julia Brook as an adjunct instructor for our second year courses. Julia, a post-doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Education, taught “Introduction to Music Education” in the falland then team-taught “Music Education: Partnership Placement”with Roberta Lamb in the winter term.

The well-known and unique Symphony Education Partnership,created by Roberta Lamb and Karen Frederickson and written up in the Queen’sMusic Newsletter 2006, has gained a fabulousnew partner as our generous benefactor, Dr. Helen Howard, created a new endowment in support of courses that link musicand education with the Kingston Community. We are so gratefulfor the Helen Howard Music, Education, and Community Fund,which is already helping sustain our music education program! If you would like to join Dr. Howard and her love of music education, please go to the School of Music website atqueensu.ca/music and click the Donate Now button.

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School of Music Director’s Report:

The 2013/14 year has simply flownby, and we are looking forward immensely to the opening of the Isabel, as we now affectionately call the new performing arts centre.I have enjoyed working with andgetting to know Jerry Doiron, Director of the Isabel, and was delighted when he offered to give a colloquium talk to our students

on “A Career in the Biz”. Having concerts, rehearsals andsome classes at the Isabel will also help us get to know ourneighbours in drama, fine art, and film and media better, and we are anticipating many creative collaborations. I hopeto see many of you there next October as we celebrateHomecoming with our first Showcase Concert in the new hall.

Also new and exciting is our concurrent program with St. Lawrence College Music and Digital Media Diploma. This opportunity for students to combine the rigour of a BMusDegree with the state-of-the-art technological knowledge inthe college program speaks directly to the changing landscapeof the music world (see page 4). Interdisciplinary is the wordof the day, as we continue to explore connections not only

with St. Lawrence and other creative arts departments, butalso with the QCM. Our music students continue to findopportunities to link in with the QCM, through course workin pedagogy, teaching the Yamaha Junior Music classes, andleading the Music in Motion summer camp.

Presently we find ourselves at an exciting turning point atthe School of Music, as ongoing challenges combined withnew opportunities continue to shape our future. The worldof professional music making and teaching is changing andas a result we are engaging in new opportunities to focusour creative energies on taking advantage of the best ofthose changes while at the same time preserving all thethings we love and value about our program.

As always, I have to give my very sincere thanks to all ofyou who continue to support our programs and students so generously. Our endowed funds continue to grow andour fundraisers are always a grand success thanks to yourkindness and benevolence. We believe in our talented students and I’m so delighted that so many of you do too!

With my very best wishes for a lovely summer,Margaret Walker

Jerry Doiron, Director, Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Director of the Isabel JerryDoiron came to Queen’sUniversity from Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Shaw Festivalwhere he was the planningdirector. Prior to joining theShaw Festival in 1996, he heldseveral key positions withperforming arts companies,including general manager ofNecessary Angel TheatreCompany and producer ofTheatre Passe Muraille. JerryDoiron has acted as an advisorto several granting agenciesand foundations, includingthe Canada Council, theOntario Arts Council, theCreative Trust and the MetcalfFoundation, and is formerPresident of the ProfessionalAssociation of CanadianTheatres and the TorontoTheatre Alliance.

Programming for the 2014/15 season at the Isabel includes:Soloists: Jakob Koranyi, cello, Cédric Tiberghien, piano, SarahChang, violin and Jeanine De Bique, soprano and ensembles:Afiara Quartet with Maxim Bernard, New Orford StringQuartet, Zukerman Chamber Players, Les Violons du Roywith Marc-André Hamelin. There is also a subscriber bonus of the Salzburg Marionette Theatre with Orion Weiss and

Theatre Kingston – Venus in Fur, QCM student recitals, and ofcourse Queen’s School of Music performances which include:Faculty Artist Series, the School of Music Gala, Showcase,Choral, Jazz, Wind and Symphony Orchestra ensembles aswell as the PROMS fundraiser. (Go to: theisabel.ca for moreinformation)

In the Isabel Inaugural Season brochure Jerry Doiron writes:“The completion of the Isabel is a clear signaling of Queen’scommitment to the performing and fine arts – a cutting-edgefacility that includes three superior performing spaces. And,now it’s our job – that of the students, the audiences and thevisiting artists – to breathe life into these buildings. At thecore of Queen’s is the spirit of initiative: pushing the limits,innovating, exploring and creating, a community imaginingtogether. It is my hope that my programming of theseglorious new spaces will reflect these qualities and that theIsabel will become a consummate storytelling space – storiestold in music, film, theatre and the visual arts – stories thatreveal the human condition for what it is: complex, oftenconfusing and ever beautiful.”

As a personal note for the School of Music Alumni Newsletter,Jerry Doiron was pleased to write: “What a wonderful firstyear I’ve had at Queen’s. Not only have I had the privilege ofwatching this new facility unfold, but also learning so muchabout this great university. At the centre of our new buildingis a gorgeous concert hall that will ensure that music willalways remain at the heart of the Isabel. And with the longstanding commitment to music at Queen’s, this is exactly asit should be!”

It’s been wonderful working with Jerry and getting to knowboth him and the Isabel this year.

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2013/2014 Faculty Recital Series

Mrs. Margaret Farr, whose generous donations make the Faculty Recital Seriespossible, celebrated a very special birthday this year. Our sincere thanks for herongoing support, and we are happy to say that at the young age of 100 years, she attends most performances!

The series began in November, with “An Afternoon of Arias and Sonatas by J.S. Bach”, featuring faculty members, Donelda Gartshore, flute, Bruce Kelly, baritone, Dina Namer, harpsichord and Gisèle Dalbec-Szczesniak violin.

In January, a concert named “The Music of Kristi Allik and Friends” was presentedas a tribute to long-serving Composition and Theory Professor Emerita, Kristi Allik.Featured was Allik’s own music as well as compositions by two of her recent students, Josh Hochman, and Sandy Parisi-Unger. The concert ended with an extended improvisation by the ensemble LEARK (Live Electroacoustic ResearchKitchen) featuring the electronic stylings of Kristi Allik, Michael Cassells andRobert Mulder. Following the performance concertgoers were treated to cakesand cider, along with an opportunity to meet and discuss the performance withthe composer. Allik was interviewed after the concert for a feature article in theCanadian Music Centre’s Ontario region’s Spring issue of their Ezine, Notations.

Also in January, “The Penderecki String Quartet with cellist, Wolf Tormann”delighted audience members, and the concert featured a performance of MarjanMozetich’s Second String Quartet.

The series was completed with the truly entertaining “Brass Royale: Music for Saxophone, Trumpet and Piano”, featuring Peter Freeman, saxophone, Dan Tremblay, trumpet and Tom Davidson, piano.

Fundraisers

2014“BROADWAY – TAKE TWO”

In March 2014 we presented “Broadway – Take Two” in GrantHall and students, faculty and alumni were finally able to givetheir regards to Broadway, after the 2013 performance wassuddenly cancelled due to severe weather conditions. Broadwaywas a huge success, and students were so happy to performtheir pieces to the large enthusiastic audience.

2015“A NIGHT AT THE PROMS…. then off to the Music Hall”

Our first fundraiser in the Isabel Bader Centre for the PerformingArts will take us to the PROMS and the Union Jack will beflying proudly!

Please join students, faculty and alumni on Friday, February 27,2015 as we all go to jolly old England without having to leaveKingston!

Woodwind

In November 2013, the Woodwind Area hosted the visit ofCatherine Norris, (M.Mus in Flute Performance, McGill Universityand presently the Head of Music at R.M.C., Kingston). Catherine presented a wonderful Colloquium entitled “Extended Techniques for Woodwinds”, followed by a masterclass of four senior students playing extended techniquespieces. A month prior to this class, the students were providedwith an opportunity to work with Catherine individually tobegin unlocking the intricacies of these techniques. It was afabulous and considerable learning experience for us all.

For the fourth time, Stephanie Lind was the recipient of theSchool of Music’s Teaching award, and DSC Co-Chairs JesseAlmedia and Jessalynn Tsang who presented the award statedthat students value her ability to teach the difficult theorycourses, by making them interactive and exciting – throughexcellent teaching.

Teaching Award

Kristi Allik

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Music students and faculty were offered tours in March 2014, then in late April when construction was much farther along, the Kingston Symphony (KSA) was asked to rehearse one evening to assist with “tuning the hall”. This acoustic sound check will need to happen for a variety of musical ensembles.

Below are some first impressions from some School of Music applied instructors who also were part of the KSA rehearsal:

Gordon Craig (clarinet): “When rehearsing with the KSA it was hard to believe thatwe were actually in Kingston. The Isabel is a beautifulworld-class hall, and during the rehearsal the sound wasfabulous both on stage and in the performance hall itself”.

Gisèle Dalbec (violin): “The new concert hall and rehearsal room at the Isabel arestunning visually and acoustically. It will undoubtedly become one of the great treasures of Kingston. The Schoolof Music will now be able to rehearse/play all in one superbspace. I look forward to many wonderful opportunities toperform in that space, both as a faculty member of Queen’sSchool of Music and as Concertmaster of the KSA”.

Donelda Gartshore (flute): “As a principal player in the KSA since 1973, over the years I have seen many changes and much growth happening inthis wonderful group. The advent of the new hall with itsacoustical and aesthetic beauty is absolutely thrilling to all– the performers, audience and students. They say a great hallmakes a great orchestra – and I predict that concert-goerswill be very excited and impressed with what they hear inthe concerts to come”.

Greg Runions (percussion): “Rehearsing at the Isabel with the Kingston Symphony wassuch a joy – the room responds to both loud and soft dynamiclevels and for a change it was easy to hear all of the instrumentsin the ensemble. I’m looking forward to rehearsing therenext year with the Queen’s Jazz Ensemble”.

Additional information about the Isabel is available on their website theisabel.ca. Also, don’t hesitate to visit the Queen’s NewsCentre for the Isabel related stories.

Carol-Lynn Reifel (Voice) Retirement

Even as a child, Carol-Lynn Reifel loved early music, and Bach, Handel,Dowland, etc. were among her favourites. In the early 1970’s whenCarol-Lynn listened to recordings, she realized that the purity of EmmaKirkby’s voice along with her flawless technique would be benchmarksfor using her voice effectively and safely.

Throughout Carol-Lynn’s life, Emma Kirkby remained her favourite, and was the performer she recommended her students listen to as definitive. Carol-Lynn was able to see Emma Kirkby perform, and also had an opportunity to meet with her.

Bruce Kelly, Assistant Professor at Queen’s knew all about Carol-Lynn’sadmiration for this wonderful singer, and after contacting Emma Kirkbyhe was able to obtain a photo, which along with a personal inscriptionwas presented to Carol-Lynn at a retirement get-together. The inscriptionread: “All good wishes to Carol-Lynn and thanks for all your work practicingand teaching the kind of singing that I believe in!” Carol-Lynn remarked, “thephotograph somehow validates my commitment to the style of singingthat I love so well”.

To have Queen’s update your home/email addresses, email records@queensu.ca

Mailing Address:Queen’s University, School of Music39 Bader Lane, Kingston, Ontario k7l 3n6Tel 613.533.2066queensu.ca/music

Thanks to faculty members, as well as Kim Ison andSheri Wilson, for their help in making this AlumniNewsletter possible.Editor Shirley C. RothDirector Margaret Walker

Faculty ActivitiesPUBLICATIONS

Roberta Lamb“Conducting a Symphony EducationPartnership,” Partnerships and Coalitions,edited by Samuel Mitchell, Authorhouse,Bloomington, IN, 2013, pp. 161-202.

Stephanie Lind“Jacques Hétu’s ‘Style Composite’: A Transformational Approach to ModalSuperimposition,” Perspectives of New Music,vol. 51, no. 1, Winter 2013, pp. 135-160.

Review of Audacious Euphony: Chromaticismand the triad’s second nature by Richard CohnJournal of Mathematics and Music, vol. 7, no. 1March 2013, pp. 73-79.

Mark SirettThe Stars Point The Way, CME HolidayLights, Boosey & Hawkes, 2013.

The Leaving of Liverpool, Boosey & Hawkes,2013.

Dear Old Ireland, Boosey & Hawkes, 2013.

The Dying Rebel, Boosey & Hawkes, 2013.

The Wild Rover, Boosey & Hawkes, 2013

Citadel Hill, Cypress Choral Music, 2013.

Ecce Concipies, Boosey & Hawkes, 2013.

O Take the Lute, Porfiri and Horvath(Germany), 2013.

Things that Never Die (text by CharlesDickens), Boosey & Hawkes, 2013.

Margaret Walker“Wounded with the Arrow of HerEyelashes: Seduction and Sensuality in North Indian Dance,” In Kippen andKouvenhoven (Eds) Music, Dance, and the Art of Seduction. Delft: Eburon AcademicPublishers, 2013, 303-316.

“Purity, Hybridity, and Nationalism inIndia’s Kathak Dance Revival,” in CarolineBithell and Jupiter Hill (Eds) OxfordHandbook of Musical Revival, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, Online.

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PREMIERES

John BurgeCathedral Architecture for organ andorchestra, with Michael Capon, organ, and the Kingston Symphony, Evan Mitchell,conductor. St. George’s Cathedral,Kingston, ON, October 27, 2013.

Piano Concerto No. 2 for piano and stringorchestra, with Angela Park, piano, andSinfonia Toronto, Nurhan Arman,conductor. Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, ON, January 24, 2014.

Mark SirettFirmly Planted (SATB a cappella), St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Ottawa, ON, March 28, 2013.

April, Bel Canto Chorus, Hopkins, MN,April 3, 2013.

Peace (SSA and piano), InternationalSchools of Music Junior School HonoursFestival, directed by James Libbey,Waterloo, BE, May 8, 2013.

Come Sit with Me (SATB and piano), Tone Cluster conducted by Kurt Ali-Kantti,Ottawa, ON, May 23, 2014.

A Pierless Bridge (SATB and piano), The Bridge Project, Vancouver, BC, May 20, 2014.

The Blessing of Light (SATB and organ), St. Clement’s Anglican Church, Toronto, ON,November 28, 2013.

The Songster (SSA and piano), OttawaChildren’s Chorus, Ottawa, ON, May 10, 2014.

Michel SzczesniakDialogues, with Gisèle Dalbec-Szczesniakand the Kingston Symphony, GrandTheatre, Kingston, ON, December 1, 2013.

PERFORMANCES

Peter Freeman“Cuivres Royal Brass” with Dan Tremblay,trumpet, and Tom Davidson, piano.Schulich Professional Concert Series: CarteBlanche, Pollack Hall, McGill University,Montreal, QC, February 22, 2014.

“Brass Royale” with Dan Tremblay, trumpet,and Tom Davidson, piano, Faculty RecitalSeries, Sara M. Snell. Music Theatre, Crane School of Music, Potsdam, NY,March 2, 2014.

Gisèle Dalbec-SzczesniakDialogues, written by Michel Szczesniak,with the Kingston Symphony, GrandTheatre, Kingston, ON, December 1, 2013.

“Violin and Piano Recital,” with MichelSzczesniak, Musique Chez Nous Series,Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, QC,September 20, 2013.

Kingston Chamber Ensemble concerts, withMichel Szczesniak, piano, Gisèle Dalbec,violin, Melinda Raymond, violin, EileenBeaudette, viola, Jill Vitols, cello. Kingston,ON, April 2013, May 2013, October 2013,April 2014.

Ireneus ZukPiano Duo Recital (with Luba Zuk),Professional Concert Series: Carte Blanche,Schulich School of Music, Pollack Hall,McGill University, Montreal, QC, March 13, 2014.

PRESENTATIONS

John Burge“Piano Teaching Tricks I have Learned Overthe Years,” Canadian National Conservatoryof Music’s Piano Symposium, Mount Forest,ON, July 22, 2013.

“Ten Approaches to Creativity – A CanadianComposer works with a Snowdrift”, Schoolof Music, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON,October 28, 2013; Faculty of Music,University of Toronto, Toronto, ON,November 17, 2013.

Roberta Lamb“Music Education in Ethnomusicology: A Mutual Relationship”, Society forEthnomusicology, Indianapolis, IN,November 14, 2013.

“Where are the women? And otherquestions, asked within and historicalanalysis of sociology of music educationresearch publications: Being a self-reflectiveethnographic path”, 8th InternationalSymposium on the Sociology of MusicEducation, Hedmark University College,Hamar, Norway, June 18, 2013.

Stephanie Lind“Contrapuntal Form in Betsy Jolas’‘Frauenleben’,” Women Composers’ Festivalof Hartford, Hartford, CT, March 9, 2013;Canadian University Music Society,Victoria, BC, June 8, 2013.

“Teaching Harmonic Function: AnIntegrated Approach,” School of MusicColloquium Series, Queen’s University,Kingston, ON, January 29, 2014.

Kip Pegley“Traumatic Remembrance and SamuelBarber’s Adagio for Strings,” Ban RighSpeaker Series, Queen’s University,Kingston, ON, March 6, 2013.

“Music and the ‘Feminized’ Peacekeeper at the Canadian War Museum,” GenderStudies Brown Bag Series and the CulturalStudies Colloquium Series, Queen’sUniversity, Kingston, ON, March 20, 2013.

“Look, Another Wall”: Retired CanadianArmy Soldiers on Music ‘In Theatre’ and inPost-Deployment,” InternationalAssociation for the Study of Popular Music,Canadian Branch, McMaster University,Hamilton, ON, May 25, 2013; the CanadianUniversity Music Society, Victoria, BC, June4, 2013; School of Music Colloquium Series,Queen’s University, Kingston, ON,September 13, 2013.

“I Rationed Food, Water, and my iPodBattery”: Canadian Army Veterans’Relationship with Music “In Theatre” and in Post Deployment,” Department of MusicColloquium Series, University of Alberta,Edmonton, AB, September 27, 2013.

Mark Sirett“New Music for SAB and SATB voices”,Royal Canadian College of Organists,Orgelfest Convention, Ottawa, ON, July 22, 2013.

Gordon Smith“Deconstructing the Curricular Canon:Looking to the Future,” (Organizer andChair of Roundtable), Canadian UniversityMusic Society, Victoria, BC, June 8, 2013.

“Reclaiming Identity and Processes ofHealing in a Mi’kmaw Community,” Society for Ethnomusicology, Indianapolis, IN, November 14, 2013.

Margaret Walker“Deconstructing the Curricular Canon:Looking to the Future” (Organizer andparticipant in Roundtable), CanadianUniversity Music Society, Victoria, BC, June 8, 2013.

“From Salam to Pranaam: TheSanskritization of India’s Kathak Dance,”Centre for Research on Religion, Religionand Performance in South Asia Series,McGill University, Montreal, QC,September 25, 2013.

“Dance in Wajid Ali Shah’s Lucknow,” The Annual Conference on South Asia,Centre for South Asia, University ofWisconsin, Madison, WI, October 18, 2013.

“Indian Music and Dance: A New AncientTradition,” “Why India Matters” SeminarSeries, Northumberland LearningConnection, Port Hope, November 8, 2013.

“Ethnomusicology Programs Focused onUndergraduate Education”, Meeting forProgram Directors for Ethnomusicology inthe Academy and Public Sector, Society forEthnomusicology, Indianapolis, IN,November 14, 2013.

“Transitions, Performance, and Gender: The Mardana Tawaif and the Raj,”“Transitions of Indian Music and Dance inthe Colonial Indian Ocean, c. 1750-1950,”University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,PA, April 25, 2014.

Ireneus Zuk“Kyiv Musicians – Founders of UkranianMusic Traditions in Canada” (with LubaZuk), “The National Music Academy onthe Threshold of its Centennial”, NationalMusic Academy of Ukrane, Kyiv, Ukraine,November 5, 2013.

RECORDINGS

John BurgeCathedral Architecture for organ and brassband, with William O’Meara, organ, andthe Hannaford Street Silver Band, EdwardGregson, conductor. Ontario Reflections,volume 1, Opening Day Records, [ODR7440].

AWARDS/OTHER

John BurgeAwarded the 2013 Prize for Excellence inResearch, Queen’s University, Kingston.

Stephanie LindAwarded the 2014 School of MusicExcellence in Teaching Award, Queen’s University, Kingston.

Kip PegleyAwarded the 2013 School of MusicExcellence in Teaching Award, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.

Mark SirettGuest conductor for the SaskatchewanTreble Choir Festival, Regina, SK,February 8, 2014.

Guest conductor and clinician for theSingOntario Festival, Rose Theatre,Brampton, ON, January 25-26, 2014.

Guest conductor and clinician for theSaskSINGS Choral Festival, Regina, SK,February 9-12, 2014.

Ireneus ZukChair of Jury and jury member of YouthCompetition in Memory of Tchaikovsky,Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, Kamyanka,Ukraine, November, 2013.

SUMMER 2014